How Do I Declare War?

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I fee like a noob, I must be missing something.  I had three armies surrounding an enemy city.  When I selected one of the armies and moved the mouse over the city, the cursor turned to two crossed swords, but clicking the mouse did nothing.  I wanted to declare war and attack.  So I tried to engage in conversation with the sov I wanted to declare war on.  He just says "I'm too busy right now...".  So, how do I attack?

 

In the end I had to wait 3 turns and finally he told me to get off his land, at which point I could declare war.  Is this the way to do it?

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top


You talk with them. In the diplomacy screen there is an option to declare war. I think it is under treaties.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

But he refuses to let me talk to him.  He says he is too busy.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, that is definitely a bug or a flaw that needs to be fixed.  However, if you have met other players you can bring up their screen and scroll to the one that doesn't want to talk.  It's a clunky workaround, but it does work.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Interesting.  I'll have to try that.  Usually though, I find that if one sov doesn't want to talk to me, they all don't.  I'm not sure what the criteria for being too busy is.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Maybe they are preparing for war.  But it seems a bit unfair if they are allowed to prepare for war, and you are not allowed to declare war on them first.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah I think there should be a shortcut to declare war without even having to talk to the sovereign first. I think almost every other 4x I've played gives you an option to declare war just by moving your troops onto their city or with a keyboard command like alt-clicking their name. I've had this happen to me before too and it's really annoying.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Move on to their land they give you the option to move off  or put their head on a spike  [declare war]. Hope that helps.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Go talk to another guy/girl, ask him/her how much they will pay you for atacking the other guy/girl. Make money + war declaration = win + win.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top


Sounds like maybe there was a treaty already in place

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

There wasn't a treaty. 

 

I think when you click to attack a city it should ask you if you want to declare war.  Right now clicking on the city doesn't do anything.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

It was a bug, now on the fixed list for .984

 

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

ah, nice